The Hindu domains of Gwalior were incorporated into the Delhi sultanate in 1231 by the sultan Iltutmish.
Oman Sail, a government organisation launched in 2008 to develop the sport in the sultanate, has its headquarters in the new marina adjoining this development.
An RSF spokesperson said: "This is an encouraging gesture for freedom of information in the sultanate… The [Omani] laws on freedom of information, including online freedom of information, must be reformed so that they comply with international undertakings signed and ratified by the sultanate".
"We want to accomplish something, tell the women of the sultanate and neighbouring countries: 'You too can succeed in sport if you have the will to do so'," says Intisar al-Toobi, 23, a PE graduate.
While the sultanate, which lies across the Gulf of Oman from Iran, has limited geopolitical importance, its ruler's trip received heavy coverage in the Iranian media – a level of attention no doubt amplified by the fact that it came amid the dog days of the Tehran summer.
On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.
In fact, until annexed by the Dutch in 1874, the sultanate of Aceh was a distinct and powerful state which at times controlled a large slice of Sumatra and channelled much of South East Asia's trade through its ports.
Oman subsequently purchased from British Aerospace a fleet of 15 Hawk jets, which it has been operating since the 1980s.The sultanate has a long history of association with the British military and defence industry, which stretches back to military assistance provided by the UK to overcome a rebellion in the north of Oman, in the late 1950s.
Within a few short months, death has struck down four out of 12 reigning monarchs in a region that includes one sultanate, two kingdoms and nine emirates, seven of the latter being embraced within the United Arab Emirates.The latest to pass away is Sheikh Jaber al-Sabah, who had ruled Kuwait since 1977.
The ruling party accuses the CUF of harbouring plans to dissolve the union with Tanzania and reinstate the Arab sultanate that was toppled in the 1964 revolution.The fight may decide the direction of Zanzibar's economy.
More unhappy Muslims Reprints Related items Thailand: Returning to democracyOct 5th 2006Violence has flickered in the south ever since Thailand annexed the region, which was formerly an independent sultanate, in 1902 and began trying to assimilate its mainly Malay-speaking Muslim people into a Thai-speaking, Buddhist nation.
